Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tact and skill in the galleries for impressionism and postimpressionism at the top of the museum, fitted into the dead space between facade and vault. This parade of rooms, with its 30 or so Van Goghs, its nearly 40 Cezannes, its Monets and Manets and Renoirs, its superb array of Degas bronzes, is bound to be the popular core of the museum, and Aulenti was right to put it up high, closest to the light. "Light is impressionism," she says. "I wanted the light here to be felt as it was by the painters, to be experienced...
...chilling array of charges faced former Central African Republic Leader Jean- Bedel Bokassa in court last week. The self-proclaimed Emperor, who unexpectedly returned home in October after seven years of exile, stands accused of crimes ranging from cannibalism to concealing corpses to killing children during a brutal 14-year rule that ended in 1979. Bokassa was convicted of similar atrocities in 1980 and was sentenced to death in absentia. Under Central African Republic law, however, he is entitled to a second trial...
Some people would clearly prefer not to talk about poison at all. Sex educators face a powerful array of detractors and doubters: Fundamentalist and Roman Catholic leaders, antiabortionists, opponents of the gay lobby, psychologists worrying about the impact of AIDS messages on the young, blacks who consider sex education racist, and even a few capitalists who think that school clinics offering birth-control information should be turned over to private enterprise...
...Gould's array of baseball statistics indicates that Mantle was the man who dominated the 1950s and 1960s Yankees, which the professor calls "probably the greatest teams of all time...
Through the course of his investigation we encounter an intriguing array of suspects, including a lovelorn mistress, a frail mother with a ferocious grip on the family, a wife with an overly loving relationship with her cousin, a bitterly estranged daughter with a lover in the Communist Party, and a brother-in-law with several lovers among the Berowne's servant staff--one of whom is both a decoy member of the Communist Party and an undercover policewoman...